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large area of driveway has made this service insufficient; 

 a single watering cart was provided during part of the year, 

 but only covered a small portion of the driveways. Appli- 

 cation was made to the Department early in the year for a 

 supply of trap rock screenings to resurface worn parts of 

 driveways and paths, but it was not received until just 

 before cold weather set in; parts of the traffic road have 

 long been worn into ruts; no labor has been provided by 

 the Department for the maintenance of walks and it has 

 been necessary to care for these, as well as for parts of the 

 driveways, by laborers paid from Garden funds. 



Bridges 



None of the four stone bridges built in previous years 

 have required any repairs. 



The bridge planned by the Department of Parks to re- 

 place the present wooden bridge near the Lorillard Mansion, 

 referred to in my last report, has not been constructed. 

 During the season the old wooden bridge at that point was 

 condemned by the Department as unsafe, and access to it 

 shut off on both the Garden and Park sides of the river. 

 Inability to cross the river at this point has been a great 

 deprivation and annoyance to many thousands of visitors 

 who have had to walk upstream to the Boulder Bridge, or 

 downstream to the Linnaean Bridge for this purpose. I 

 have been informed by the Park Department that money 

 for this bridge was voted by the Board of Estimate and 

 Apportionment a long time ago, but that it has not been 

 possible up to the present time to award a contract for its 

 construction. Plans were duly approved by all parties 

 concerned in 1908. 



In order to shorten the distance for hauling material for 

 filling and path construction near the northern end of the 

 grounds, a temporary wooden bridge was built late in the 

 season across the Bronx River near the southern end of the 

 north meadows, near a point planned for a permanent stone 

 structure in the future. This was constructed by our 



